We Are In Danger of Losing Our Country

Democracy itself is being challenged by ongoing world events. Today the effort to impose democracy from without (America in Iraq) is most often equated with death by military action or from improvised bombs. Very little benefit can be seen to date to the continuing occupation and the damage to both Iraq and to America continues to grow. In this venture our government has alienated many of our foreign allies, spent untold billions of dollars much of which is unaccountable, and cost the lives of more than 2600 of our soldiers. The American military is stretched to near the breaking point as troops are repeatedly reassigned to Iraq. The ready reserves including men in their 50’s are being recalled to active duty. By allowing terrorism to overshadow all other national concerns we are failing as a country.

We can no longer afford to continue down this path. The sooner we withdraw from Iraq the sooner we can begin to restore some measure of both domestic and international tranquility. The handwriting is on the wall. We are pursuing a failing course which is worsening with time. The costs are simply too high. We have no more children to lose. We are in danger of losing our country as we knew it if we fail to change course very soon.